Tag: Adam McKay

When Adam McKay moved away from making stright-up comedies like Step Brothers and The Other Guys, the last thing I was expecting him to start making was more serious biographical comedy-dramas. With The Big Short, he showed he could handle something a little more serious while telling the tale of…

The very idea of Adam McKay, director of Anchorman and Step Brothers, making a film about the financial crisis in the mid-2000s brought on by the uncontrolled build-up of the housing market, is one that left me scratching my head. Centred around such a serious subject, I just couldn’t see what McKay would…